1. Because it's just plain amazing!
2. Perfect penche!
3. She just looks so pretty and graceful!
4. Beautiful attitude
5. Gorgeous attitude
6. Amazing grande jete
7. In this picture, she looks like she's sort of taking a "risk", which my teacher says I need to do more of.
8. Simply amazing.
9. I want to get my splits all the way like this in the center
10. I wish I could do that

Mine are for various reasons... and I have a lot of photos which inspire me!

1- Alone on a stage... need I say more?
2- His look, her pose.. held and yet looking away.
3- Just one of those moments of beauty and artistry where nothing needs to be said to tell the story
4- Controlled abandon, and in the moment. The spirit of dance, to me.
5- Again, more spirit. And I love Alessandra. I love the placement of ballet in the middle of a city life.
6- Lines, beauty, trust, above the world in the air
7- Precision, strength... for some reason has a "goddess worship" factor to it for me.
8- Poignant, ethereal, a work of art
9- Another moment. Air. Loss of control and handing over to fate and gravity. Freedom and going with.
10- Wonderful lighting, but for the expression on her face... such a feeling of release and honesty.

These are the reasons I dance.
Those moments. Those feelings. Those connections.

YouTube clips that inspire me:

Tamara Rojo & Carlos Acosta balcony pdd... I've never seen such chemistry between a Romeo and Juliet as with this couple. Really young, tender, passionate love and adoration. Falling fast and deeply and the initial bliss that comes with it.. along with the nervousness and adrenaline.www.youtube.com . . .

And nothing breaks my heart as much as this (this version). That moment.. that split second when she realises he is dead. And then.. I can almost hear her screaming "no" into the universe and it's all too late. It's all gone wrong. It wasn't supposed to happen like that, they were due a happy ending and half of her heart has just left the world.
Tamara final scenewww.youtube.com . . .

Yes, there are more.
I tried to cut them down to as few as I could, but couldn't choose between them.

1- Simple elegance.
2- Archetypal dancing and artistry
3- Softness, delicacy, emotive expression.. I can feel the breeze on my own skin when I look at it.
4- How can such a simple image evoke so many feelings and themes and stories and thoughts? (Re:archetypal dancing...)
5- Another of those moments. Getting lost in the dance.
6- Beautiful lines, joy, the compulsion we have to dance
7- Introverted dancing. Moments alone and inside of ourselves. Hidden meanings. Solitude in performance. (Like my first photo in my previous post... a big theatre, and all alone... but alone whether or not the audience is in.)
8- Beauty. Poignant again and how a dancer can break your heart in one move. Tradition and old-school romantic ballets.
9- Lines, looks, togetherness. Something special captured.

So very sad. A broken spirit when she knows it is over. Trapped. Fate. Doomed. The "technique" and finishes fall away to leave a re-enactment without love.
Alessandra Juliet's Bedroom with Paris:www.youtube.com . . .

I watch these things and I have to put my shoes on and dance in my living room.

1. I don't really know, it just describes those couple moments before going onstage.
2. The box splits.
3. Leap.
4. How amazing would it be to dance in that studio?
5. The letting go and just dancing.
6. Amazing side battement.
7. Front extension and arches.
Those are my two cents. By the way, amazing idea.

1. I'ts just a Beautiful picture!
2. She has such a lovely arabesque
3. Her attitude is just so perfect!
4. Her grande jete is so amazing
5. She looks gorgeous and so passionate (like the icon says ^-^ )
6. This icon is just insane- look at her flexible back!
7. Such an amazing leg-hold
8. She just looks so passionate